8.04.2013

As I was getting ready to create a layout for my Friday post at Noel Mignon - I realized how disorganized all my photos are :( I use iphoto and have them in albums created automatically when they were imported. However, I think I need to go in and label with dates and events. Any suggestions on photo organizing??? Any programs that work really well for this?? I was super frustrated because in moving some files from an external drive to my hard drive - I lost all the dates & thousands of photos got lumped into one huge album. I wanted to scrap some pics of Ryan at the boardwalk in Ocean City from a few years back, but for the life of me I had a time remembering exactly when they were from. Hence the need to really get my pics organized!! I don't want to go through this every time I scrap my old pics :( Anyways - enough about my disorganization :) Here is the layout I created from the pics I mentioned & the new Noel Mignon "Our Summer" kit. Full of fun, bright colors - this kit was perfect for my pics and so much fun to work with!!!

When I first laid everything out, I did not have the teal arrow diecut paper behind my photo - but I realized I needed some "pop" behind the photos. I used an arrow background I found in the Silhouette store HERE. I also decided to stitch around the photos. There was a lot of white in the photos, so the machine stitching ended up being a great way to help them stand out :)

For the title I combined those awesome cork looking Thickers from the kit, along with the "love" cut file from the Silhouette store. HERE is a link to the file. I journaled directly on one of the Jillibean Soup banner stickers. Around the journaling I added some cute tags & stickers from the kit :)

8.01.2013

Two days in a row? What? Maybe I will become a regular blogger again :) Every once in awhile, I get a pretty good phone shot I can blow up. Oftentimes I keep my phone pics smaller, to keep the resolution nice - but this one worked out pretty good at 6 x 10 :) I wanted to journal on this one too, but I just couldn't decide where . . . I will have to add it in later, or maybe on the back. This was Nicholas' first roller coaster without parents in tow. Just him & Ryan & his cousins. He's a little thrill-seeker already & couldn't get enough!!

I used the Fancy Pants Designs Memories Captured collection for this. LOTS of fun embellishments from their ephemera pack & stickers here! I am really liking their new alphas - of course I dressed up my "o's" :) A few of their chipboard button stars & a couple brads popped in the holes.

I liked how some the embellishments had a chalkboard effect to them like this circle tag. I clustered a few additional chipboard buttons and a cute little arrow sticker. Oh & I couldn't help myself - I stitched around my photo :)

Hope you have a great Thursday - who knows, I may be back tomorrow too :)